Tag: Abnousse
Law on the end of life: I doubt and it seems healthy to me to do so, by Abnousse Shalmani
The citizens’ convention on the end of life ended with the submission of a report which came out, by a large majority, in favor of euthanasia and assisted suicide. I…
The broken promises of macronism, by Abnousse Shalmani
An image has circulated widely on the digital agora: customers seated at the restaurant who finish their dinner, order a coffee, attack the main course. A banal scene of French…
What if we stopped “sanitizing” the lives of children? By Abnousse Shalmani
Bret Easton Ellis is back with a novel, Splinters, more than fourteen years after his last literary foray, and four years after his powerful essay, White. In an interview given…
THE "fake news" authorized neo-feminists, by Abnousse Shalmani
It seems that it is now allowed to use and spread fake news when it comes to neo-feminist struggles. No matter the approximations, the lies, the exaggerations, what matters is…
“Wakanda Forever”: when the West’s self-hatred reaches new heights, by Abnousse Shalmani
The West vomits, Europe despises itself, France feels guilty even to self-hatred. A wind of disgust seems to have swept over the West, the past has lazily settled into the…
Pension reform: imbecility everywhere, reflection nowhere, by Abnousse Shalmani
It vociferates, it yells, it insults, it sulks, it takes offense, it exaggerates, it comes out as a diva, it comes back as a victim, it barks, it boos, it…
Salman Rushdie and Iranian youth: the same drive for freedom, by Abnousse Shalmani
He is alive ! damaged but alive! On the occasion of the American release of his new novel, Victory City, Salman Rushdie gave an interview to New Yorker, published on…
Murder of Tire Nichols: the hidden race, by Abnousse Shalmani
The footage of the police killing of Tire Nichols in Memphis is unbearable. The relentlessness is as palpable there as the insensitivity for human life. The police officers of the…
Islamism: the danger of tolerance towards the intolerant, by Abnousse Shalmani
Islamism is no longer articulated except lip service. Besides, we no longer say “Islamism”, but “radical Islamism”. As we no longer say “Taliban”, but “ultra-conservative Taliban”, as if a Taliban…
"charlie" is Persian, by Abnousse Shalmani
The mullahs lost from day one, from the day women took off their veils, from the first throw of turbans, from the moment the portraits of Khomeini and Khamenei were…